This Really Happened In Africa
Jul 1, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min · 13 segments
In January 1941, the Earl of Erroll was found shot dead in his car outside Nairobi. He was the most infamous womanizer of Kenya's Happy Valley set, a circle of British aristocrats who traded England's…
Inside, a man with a bullet in his head.
And his murder would kick off an enduring mystery that would expose the colonial elites and the so-called Happy Valley sets.
What are we going to focus on today?
These white people are talking about us.
These white settlers, they were like aristocrats.
They believed that they were supposed to rule.
so they just started like a racial based government it's like seizing lands from the people that already lived everybody was badly behaved so many rumors about endless orgies and wife swapping and stripping and wild drinking STD sharing He was very notorious and he had an intense effect on women.
Shut up.
He was doing everything else everybody was doing.
Like the gambling, the drinking, the everything.
But he was also like targeting married women.
One story, there was a woman he had an affair with.
They were in like this hotel restaurant or something.
And she came in with her husband and child.
And then just looked at the kid and said, hi, come to daddy.
That is sick.
After they got married, there was an agreement.
If Diana fell in love with a man her own age and wanted to leave Jock, he was not to stand in her way and was even to pay her £5,000 a year for seven years.
Seven years.
Like at least there's no room for like cheating.
Apparently there's room.
He asks her out.
He asks her to dinner.
And she said yes.
It's said that they danced all night.
And while dancing, Joss reportedly said, so who is going to tell your husband that you're leaving him? As time went on, there was like a growing rebellion against those white settlers.
Because it's like the way they were treating people.
The cracks.
Where is that from? 3 a.m.
Two African dairy workers discovered a man with a bullet in his head abandoned in a ditch.
And he had been found about two and a half miles from Jock and Diana's house.
So who do you guys think killed him? Good to
be back.
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Inside, a man with a bullet in his head.
And his murder would kick off an enduring mystery that would expose the colonial elites and the so-called Happy Valley sets.
What are we going to focus on today?
These white people are talking about us.
These white settlers, they were like aristocrats.
They believed that they were supposed to rule.
so they just started like a racial based government it's like seizing lands from the people that already lived everybody was badly behaved so many rumors about endless orgies and wife swapping and stripping and wild drinking STD sharing He was very notorious and he had an intense effect on women.
Shut up.
He was doing everything else everybody was doing.
Like the gambling, the drinking, the everything.
But he was also like targeting married women.
One story, there was a woman he had an affair with.
They were in like this hotel restaurant or something.
And she came in with her husband and child.
And then just looked at the kid and said, hi, come to daddy.
That is sick.
After they got married, there was an agreement.
If Diana fell in love with a man her own age and wanted to leave Jock, he was not to stand in her way and was even to pay her £5,000 a year for seven years.
Seven years.
Like at least there's no room for like cheating.
Apparently there's room.
He asks her out.
He asks her to dinner.
And she said yes.
It's said that they danced all night.
And while dancing, Joss reportedly said, so who is going to tell your husband that you're leaving him? As time went on, there was like a growing rebellion against those white settlers.
Because it's like the way they were treating people.
The cracks.
Where is that from? 3 a.m.
Two African dairy workers discovered a man with a bullet in his head abandoned in a ditch.
And he had been found about two and a half miles from Jock and Diana's house.
So who do you guys think killed him? Good to
be back.
